The Blue Fox
In Iceland in the winter of 1883 a priest hunts a blue fox across the snow while a naturalist buries a young woman he rescued from a shipwreck, and the two stories converge. Sjón's brief, folkloric novel won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2005.
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